NORWAY'S NOMADIKON CENTRE AND SAINT ROSE TO HOST "SEEING" CONFERENCE

ALBANY (August 1, 2012) -- The Nomadikon Centre of The University of Bergen in Norway and The College of Saint Rose will host “Ecologies of Seeing or Seeing Whole: Images and Space, Images within Images,” an interdisciplinary conference open to the public.

The theme of the conference reflects an overall interest in the process of “seeing” itself, with “seeing” not limited to simply physical sight, but inclusive of an embodied seeing. The conference will be held Thursday, September 27, through Saturday, September 29, in the Saint Joseph Hall Auditorium, 985 Madison Ave., Albany. Sessions will begin at 12:15 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. on both Friday and Saturday.

The conference will engage topics in film, painting, photography, performance, music, material culture and literature, with presenters both from the U.S. and abroad. Guest speakers are: Dr. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University; Dr. Joanna Isaaks, Fordham University; and Dr. Alison Griffiths, Baruch College, CUNY, each an internationally known scholar in her field of study.

Cost of the conference is $50 for all three days or $25 per day and free with a valid Saint Rose I.D. Cost includes coffee and snacks. Tickets and programs will be available each day at the beginning of conference events.

Nomadikon is a transdisciplinary research group and center for image studies and visual aesthetics at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen. The center launched in fall 2008 with the project “New Ecologies of the Image (2008-2012)” and consists of a core team of six locally based scholars, international affiliates and a global network of visual culture studies researchers.